Today, our new project EPICSAVE (Enhanced ParamedIC vocational training with Serious games And Virtual Environments) has been officially acknowledged by BMBF/DLR. The project runs for three years starting 1 March 2016. Training paramedics for critical but rare emergencies is difficult in real practice, as such rare events may not actually occur during a vocational training program. As a solution, we will implement a prototypical virtual reality serious game enabling paramedics to learn how to quickly identify such situations and take appropriate actions.